Schools still need safety upgrades

Regarding the Monday article, “$12 million road fix to open”:

Wow. That’s all I can say about the county, city and tribes’ new $12 million road built to complement the tribes’ temple of excess spending, Quil Ceda Village. What’s ironic is it opens on the same day as the county granted a conditional use permit for the secondary options campus about one mile away. How strange it comes with no provisions to fix dismal traffic conditions that exist due to the Marysville School District’s poor planning.

Letters and public comments couldn’t sway the school district or the county to do the right thing and improve safety for families living in the vicinity of Quil Ceda Elementary and the options campus. Maybe if there were some slot machines at the school, the local government would see fit to make it easier to walk there without being run down by a cell-phone-talking-mommy-SUV pilot living out of district, who is running late yet again today.

James Brady

Marysville

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